Michelle Lang
Michelle Lang | |
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| Born | 31 January 1975 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | 30 December 2009 (aged 34) |
| Education | Simon Fraser University |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Notable credit | Calgary Herald |
Michelle Justine Lang (31 January 1975 – 30 December 2009) was a Canadian journalist. Lang was a Calgary Herald reporter and the first Canadian journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lang was an alumnus of Magee Secondary School and Simon Fraser University. Her first job as a reporter was at the Prince George Free Press. She later moved on to Moose Jaw Times Herald and the Regina Leader-Post, then moved to Calgary to become a print journalist for the Calgary Herald. She won a National Newspaper Award in 2008 for best beat reporting,[2] for her reporting on national and provincial health-care issues.[3]
Lang was on a six-week assignment to Afghanistan for the Herald and Canwest News Service[4] when the armoured military vehicle she was riding in struck a roadside bomb.[5] She died of her wounds and four Canadian soldiers were killed in the blast.[6]
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- 1975 births
- 2009 deaths
- Assassinated Canadian journalists
- Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
- Deaths by improvised explosive device in Afghanistan
- Journalists killed while covering the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Women in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Women war correspondents
- Journalists from Vancouver
- 20th-century Canadian journalists
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian women journalists
- 21st-century Canadian women journalists
- Canadian journalist stubs